Petrology of impact melt rocks from the Chesapeake Bay crater, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 377-396

  Wittmann, Axel ^a   Schmitt, Ralf T ^b   Hecht, Lutz ^b   Kring, David A ^a   Reimold, W Uwe ^a   Povenmire, Harold ^c  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; HEAT TRANSFER; INFILL DRILLING; PETROLOGY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZEOLITES; ZIRCON;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHESAPEAKE BAY; CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; CONDUCTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; EMPLACEMENT CONDITIONS; MIXING CALCULATIONS; TITANOMAGNETITES;

CORE DRILLING;

CRATER; CRYSTALLIZATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PETROGENESIS; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949125572     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(17)     Document Type: Article

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